[uk-leps] Re: Times Jan 4 2000

Chris J. Durden drdn at mail.utexas.edu
Tue Jan 11 01:40:07 EST 2000


>Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:39:18 -0600
>To: jack.harrison at virgin.net
>From: "Chris J. Durden" <drdn at mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: [uk-leps] Re: Times Jan 4 2000
>In-Reply-To: <387B6AB5.D0ACA23D at virgin.net>
>References: <3.0.6.32.20000111171704.00905100 at csm.ex.ac.uk>
>
>  That is why some of us here use THE SILVER FLASH as common name for
*Epargyreus clarus* rather than the junior homonym SILVER SPOTTED SKIPPER!
>Someone please tell the NABA names committee about this one please.
>..........Chris Durden
>
>At 05:39  11/01/00 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>Andrew Torry wrote:
>>
>>>> From: Andrew Torry <A.P.K.Torry at csm.ex.ac.uk>
>>>>
>>>> Just a shame the TIMES couldn't get the Silver Spotted Skipper picturte
>>>
>>> right though.
>>
>>I have an American book in which the picture of their Silver Spotted
Skipper is
>>the species illustrated in the Times.  So the name was right, continent
>>wrong!!!
>>
>>Jack
>>
>>


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